Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 24, 2013

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks May 24, 2013. In total, 8 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which two yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.23%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Intersections Inc.	INTX	185.22M	12.40	1.77	0.54	7.77%
Sun Life Financial Inc.	SLF	17.84B	13.21	0.87	1.04	4.83%
PetroChina Co. Ltd.	PTR	227.20B	12.38	1.27	0.63	3.04%
Pope Resources LP	POPE	275.50M	-	4.10	5.10	2.90%
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.	MHP	15.12B	23.38	14.71	3.29	2.03%
Dun & Bradstreet Corp.	DNB	3.95B	15.35	-	2.41	1.62%
Deutsche Bank AG	DB	47.82B	187.64	0.60	1.16	1.53%
Barnes Group Inc.	B	1.61B	18.22	2.02	1.35	1.34%

14 Large Caps Dividend Stocks Close To New 52-Week Highs

Large capitalized dividend stocks near 52-Week Highs originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". The markets are bullish and stocks move up. It’s getting hard to find real bargains or low valuated high-quality dividend stocks. The good thing is that in a bullish market, you can make money with different kind of stocks. Everything goes up and the main reason behind the expansive monetary policy.

Today I like to discover some large caps that are on the jump to reach new 52-Week Highs (up to 10 percent) or to hit All-Time-Highs. Only 14 companies are on the edge to touch new highs. That’s a small number compared to the strong market.

I love it when stocks make a home run. It seems that nobody can stop them but take care about the valuation. Some stocks have a P/E over 20! It could be dangerous to buy highly priced assets. Below the results are five with a yield over three percent. Ten have a buy or better recommendation.

Next Week's 20 Best Yielding Large Cap Ex-Dividend Stocks

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading week.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Between May 20-26, 2013. In total, 85 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 25 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.15%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	215.19B	15.66	1.23	3.80	6.23%
Sun Life Financial Inc.	SLF	17.58B	12.79	0.86	1.01	4.84%
Eni SpA	E	88.96B	30.99	1.11	0.54	4.58%
Thomson Reuters Corporation	TRI	28.61B	16.67	1.71	2.18	3.77%
CA Technologies	CA	12.55B	13.98	2.31	2.68	3.61%
Mattel Inc.	MAT	16.16B	20.52	5.30	2.49	3.08%
Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	247.44B	24.00	3.69	3.61	3.00%
PetroChina Co. Ltd.	PTR	232.20B	12.65	1.30	0.65	2.98%
Carnival Corporation	CCL	27.14B	18.52	1.15	1.76	2.86%
Carnival plc	CUK	28.21B	19.25	1.20	1.83	2.75%
Applied Materials Inc.	AMAT	17.95B	-	2.51	2.22	2.67%
AFLAC Inc.	AFL	25.75B	8.73	1.66	1.02	2.53%
The McGraw-Hill Companies	MHP	15.27B	23.60	14.85	3.32	2.01%
Valero Energy Corporation	VLO	22.47B	7.25	1.26	0.16	1.94%
Hershey Co.	HSY	20.16B	29.16	18.13	2.99	1.86%
Deutsche Bank AG	DB	49.39B	193.80	0.62	1.18	1.40%
Tenaris SA	TS	25.68B	15.27	2.19	2.36	1.20%
Marriott International, Inc.	MAR	13.43B	23.77	-	1.08	1.19%
China Unicom (Hong Kong)	CHU	35.05B	27.52	1.02	0.83	1.14%
Luxottica Group SpA	LUX	25.43B	33.82	4.51	2.73	0.92%

20 Most Profitable Dividend Champions

Dividend Champions with highest operating margin originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Recently I made a screen of the most profitable stocks from the Dividend Aristocrats index. I thought that it makes sense to know what kind of stocks have the highest degree of profitability. The results were impressive and some of my readers liked the idea.

Today I like to screen my Dividend Champions database by the most profitable stocks, measured by the operating margin. Because of the higher amount of screening members – the Dividend Champions list is nearly twice as big as the Dividend Aristocrats index; the results show some fresh ideas.

The 20 top stocks have a margin between 24.8 and 45.7 percent. Eleven of them are currently recommended to buy.

20 Most Recommended Dividend Aristocrats Index Stocks | List Of High Quality Income Stocks With Buy Ratings

Stocks from the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index with buy or better recommendation originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". 

Stocks from the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats index are very popular because of the high-quality long-term growth of the index members. 54 companies are part of the index and every stock has managed to increase dividends over a period of more than 25 consecutive years.

54 stocks is still a huge number for an investor with small pockets. Over the whole world are more than 60,000 tradable equities and I believe that around 300 of them are very good long-term picks. Some of them come from a foreign country like Inditex, LVMH or Swatch. 

I always look for good investments which give me a great long-term growing income. In America I found the most of those stocks. I don’t know why, maybe it's because America is the world’s biggest economy with a strong focus on growth and investor satisfaction.

However, I need to limit my screen for today and I like to highlight those stocks from the Dividend Aristocrats Index with the highest recommendation level. Linked is a list of the 20 Aristocrats most buy rated stocks from the index. Please let me know if there are some interesting stocks for you.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On February 22, 2013

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks February 22, 2013. In total, 4 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which one yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 1.92%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks: 

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	212.42B	19.81	-	3.16	3.18%
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.	MHP	12.75B	19.29	15.20	2.86	2.44%
Metals USA Holdings Corp.	MUSA	766.11M	12.22	2.47	0.38	1.16%
Delek US Holdings Inc.	DK	2.18B	10.49	2.56	0.26	1.09%

Next Week's Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading week.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks February 18 - 24, 2013. In total, 50 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 16 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.8%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
GlaxoSmithKline plc	GSK	111.86B	15.95	12.20	2.68	5.09%
Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc.	HE	2.70B	16.97	1.69	0.80	4.46%
CA Technologies	CA	11.42B	12.65	2.09	2.44	3.99%
Microchip Technology Inc.	MCHP	7.22B	52.96	3.74	4.84	3.80%
Macerich Co.	MAC	9.09B	32.73	2.74	10.32	3.77%
Mattel Inc.	MAT	14.02B	18.48	4.57	2.18	3.53%
Microsoft Corporation	MSFT	234.62B	15.39	3.23	3.22	3.28%
Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	211.06B	19.73	-	3.14	3.20%
Autoliv, Inc.	ALV	6.44B	13.27	1.71	0.78	2.97%
The Scotts Miracle-Gro	SMG	2.71B	24.74	4.49	0.96	2.95%
Limited Brands, Inc.	LTD	12.71B	18.91	-	1.26	2.72%
Carnival Corporation	CCL	28.61B	22.11	1.20	1.86	2.71%
Carnival plc	CUK	29.97B	23.16	1.25	1.95	2.59%
Invesco Ltd.	IVZ	12.15B	18.36	1.46	2.91	2.52%
AVX Corp.	AVX	2.01B	-	1.01	1.42	2.52%
The McGraw-Hill Companies	MHP	12.48B	16.29	6.99	1.97	2.49%
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	TEVA	36.18B	17.12	1.46	1.78	2.11%
Hershey Co.	HSY	18.06B	28.00	17.26	2.72	2.08%
Assurant Inc.	AIZ	3.29B	7.48	0.64	0.39	2.01%
Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd.	AHL	2.53B	10.98	0.72	1.11	1.91%